10 Things I Love: Movies

Everyone loves movies, but most people don’t love them as much as I do. The whole experience, be it at an overpriced mega-movie theater, or sitting comfortably in your own home theater, is something that I’ve enjoyed since I was a little boy and could actually follow along with the plot.

I really get into movies, especially really good movies. I laugh, gasp, get scared, jump in my seat, shout at the TV, tear up at emotional scenes, and get excited at plot advancements. I’ve been known to exclaim “Oh shit!” loudly in the theater (embarrassing my mom during The Two Towers, hehe), and get so freaked out by Cloverfield that when the movie went all silent for a moment, all you could hear was me breathing hard.

I try not to be a movie snob when it comes to most films, but I have my limits. Ridiculous comedies (like most Adam Sandler films), Musicals, and blatant “chick flicks” (like Sisterhood of the Traveling Terms of Endearment or whatever) I mostly avoid. I can tolerate musicals sometimes, but it depends highly on the content. For instance Little Shop of Horrors is awesome, as is Chicago. The Sound of Music and Mulan Rouge, not so much.

Rather than discussing the entire history of my movie watching experience (a la the last article), I thought instead I’d list a few of my all-time favorite movies and why I enjoy them so much. Looking forward to hearing feedback about some of these in the comments.

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Posted by Haggis on March 12th, 2008 @ 4:54 pm.

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Lord of the Rings meets World of Warcraft

Yes, I’m a huge nerd and also a World of Warcraft addict.

And if you’ve never played the game (or any MMO, for that matter) you won’t get the jokes in the animated image above.

N00b.

My favorite part has to be that they suspect Boromir of being a ninja. “I get plate drops kk?”

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Posted by Haggis on November 20th, 2007 @ 6:07 pm.

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Rainbow Brite: The Movie

Conforming to Hollywood’s recent trend of raping our childhood memories, E! Network’s The Soup gives us an exclusive look at the next big blockbuster based off of another classic cartoon from the 1980’s: Rainbow Brite.

I predict already that it will outsell Transformers and Spider-Man 3 COMBINED. The casting decision to play Rainbow Brite herself is genius, and I couldn’t have picked anybody better.

I think i’m gonna have a nightmare about it tonight.

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Posted by Haggis on August 7th, 2007 @ 2:06 pm.

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This is a short film from 2005 that finally proves the theory everyone always knew to be true: Batman is a cockblocker. And kinda pervy too.

The video is a short film starring Sam Rockwell (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) as Bat-Man and Justin Long (Live Free or Die Hard, Accepted) as the Boy Wonder. It centers around Robin meeting a female friend who he is interested in dating, but as he is waiting for her to show up at the restaurant Bat-man shows up and starts harassing poor Robin and hitting on his date.

Sam Rockwell absolutely steals the show as the lecherous, creepy, and kind of pathetic take on the Dark Knight character, but Justin Long has his moments as well like drinking milk while everyone else has alcohol, or the awkward tug of his uniform trying to cover up his green man-panties.

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Posted by Haggis on June 30th, 2007 @ 11:27 am.

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Mikey Likes It…Smokin’, Not So Much

Long time, no see, eh?

I realize my absence may have been unnoticed by some, but I also know that some of you Interwebians wondered. Let me put your basest fears to rest. Not dead, not incapacitated, and only marginally closer to the stroke that’s been impending for about 7 or 8 years now.

No, what sent me on my electronic hiatus was a trailer. One simple, short, well-disguised travesty of justice. The trailer in question is, as anyone who knows me is probably aware, Rob Zombie’s “re-imagining” (his words, not mine) of the epic slasher flick, Halloween.

For the uninitiated, the Halloween mythos follows the bloody, screamy story of Michael Myers, the preeminent slasher figure of modern film-making. The original film, written and directed by horror legend John Carpenter (who, by the by, also composed its prolific theme music), follows the story of Laurie Strode (played into cinematic history by Jamie Lee Curtis), a teenager being stalked by Myers for, at least in the beginning, unknown reasons.

As the story goes, Michael Myers viciously murdered his own sister, who apparently was not a very nice girl, with a butcher knife. In the original film, Myers’ motivations are vague, and somewhat supernatural. He stalks Laurie and her requisitely moronic friends until they’re dead and she’s saved by the inestimable Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance), who has treated Myers for years. Not much of a plot, eh?

The beauty of Halloween was not the plot, or the acting (although Pleasance is decent and Curtis is passable), or even the quintessential theme. It’s the cinematography that elevates this film beyond a simple horror flick. There is no more gripping scene than that of Dr. Loomis, standing silent and aghast as he looks down from the balcony of the old Myers house, at the pile of leaves where Myers’ corpse should be. This scene, among many, is one of the reasons I’ve always admired this film. In point of fact, critics and moviegoers of the time (the film was released in 1978) agreed. Not only does it rank as one of the most critically well received of the horror genre, but has become a part of popular culture.

Now get ready to flame, Interwebians.
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Posted by Smokin on May 7th, 2007 @ 1:24 pm.

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